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Show 844 DR. A. G. BUTLER O N LEPIDOPTERA [NOV. 17, " About as common, perhaps, as the ' Cream-spot tiger' in Great Britain. Emerald-green ova " (R. ft). The first example that I have seen of this pretty species. 126. VEGOCERA INCLUSA. 2 . Prlstocercea ? Inclusa, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 357, Taf. ii. fig. 5. o*, Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14th, 1895. "Fairly plentiful" (B. ft). Quite new to the Museum series : M r . Kirby is of opinion that it is the same as Metagarlsla rcndalli, Rothsch., and it is quite possible that he may be correct. 127. JEGOCERA MENETA. Noctua meneta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pl. lxx. D (1775). Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 128. CHARILINA AMABILIS. Noctua amabilis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pl. 13. fig. 3 (1773). Deep Bay, Feb. 10th and 13th, 1896. 129. ZANA SPURCATA. Antheua spurcata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxxi. p. 298 (1864). 2 , Mweniwanda's, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 15th, 1895. 130. PHALERA LATIPENNIS, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) 6 . Broader in the wings than any other species of the genus; the antennas broadly pectinated as in P. argentlfera; the upper radial of the primaries springing from the anterior angle of the cell, instead of from the subcostal; general scheme of colouring recalling P. jiavescens. Primaries above creamy white ; base of costa sprinkled with black and brick-red scales; a band of red scales crossing the wing at about basal third and followed immediately by a band of black scales, both divided by the pale nervures; two or three ill-defined greyish and testaceous stripes across the middle of the wing: at external two-sevenths is a broad belt almost parallel to outer margin, consisting first of a subangulated oblique series of black lunules, immediately followed by a more or less lunulate brick-red stripe, somewhat blackish in the centre, and lastly by a grey band irrorated with black and separating into vague lunules"towards apex ; a few ill-defined submarginal spots of black scales : secondaries sericeous ochreous, veins dusty, becoming black at apex and on outer margin: head, collar, and centre of thorax brownish ochreous; antenna? black; pterygodes and metathorax white, somewhat ochreous at the sides; an oblique black bar on the front of the pterygodes; abdomen reddish ochreous, with grey dorsal patches on each segment. Wings below ochreous, the veins chiefly black beyond the middle; the primaries from beyond the |